Deakins, William.
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Monongalia County, Plat for Land on Cheat River
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4099
Overview
Plat for land located in Monongalia County dated 7 July 1794. The plat shows four pieces of land consisting of 7000 acres located on the waters of the Cheat River below the Dunker Bottom[s] settlements. The plat also indicates the owners of each piece and dates when the land was surveyed. Also contains a description of the land written by Clement Biddle. The document was mailed to Colonel William Deakins, on evidence of sealing wax and the address of Georgetown Potowmack [sic], Maryland...
Dates:
1794
Preston County Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0956
Overview
Papers from the Leroy Bucklew Museum in the Preston County, West Virginia, courthouse. The collection includes early papers relating to land, court cases, mills and furnaces, post offices, inns, mineral development, Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad Company, roads, the Virginia-Maryland boundary, and estate settlements. There are photographs of Preston County and Kingwood, and maps of Kingwood, Bruceton Mills, Rowlesburg, Manheim, and of Berkeley Springs, Morgan County. Also includes...
Dates:
1775-1918
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- Berkeley Springs (W. Va.) 1
- Bruceton Mills (W. Va.) 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Court records 1
- Estate settlements. 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Kingwood (W. Va.) 1
- Land. 1
- Maps. 1
- Mills and mill-work 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Morgan County (W. Va.) 1
- Postal service 1
- Preston County (W. Va.) 1
- Railroads 1
- Railroads - Kingwood Railroad. 1
- Roads. SEE ALSO Turnpikes. 1
- Rowlesburg (W. Va.) 1
- Surveyors and surveying. 1
- Taverns (Inns) 1
- Transportation 1
- Virginia-Maryland boundary. 1 + ∧ less
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